RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:21:42 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Friday 21 November 2008, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > Leaving gnome-packagekit's current UI aside, is repeating the package
> > > name in summary something that people would rather not see done in any
> > > case?  I tend to think that it'd be better to not repeat it myself.  Just
> > > asking in case there's clear consensus on this - this is something that
> > > would be trivial to check in rpmlint.
> >
> > +1
> 
> The consensus doesn't seem to be entirely clear but I added the check anyway 
> in upstream rpmlint svn.  Its output can always be filtered out later if 
> needed.

There's a difference between

   foo : Foo is a ...

and

   foo : Clients and shared libraries for Foo

in particular for sub-packages and big package splits.

In other words, _starting_ the summary with the program name should
be avoided. Especially in Anaconda (but also other lists of packages)
where the N-V-R is displayed and cryptic already, it is much more readable
to present a summary that starts with what is contained within a package.

   foo-1.0-4.fc10
   Image viewer
   
   bar-2.5-7.fc10
   Text editor

   fubar-0.9-0.3.rc3.fc10
   Download accellerator